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For their offshore project in the North Sea, Areva Wind is working with Buss Port Logistics . Within the framework of this joint venture, the Orange Blue Terminal owned by port service provider Buss...read more

Vattenfall 's Ormonde offshore wind farm, located off the west coast of England, not far from the Isle of Man, was officially opened on 19 September. It took two and a half years to install the wind...read more

On September 3 the first wind turbine of Anholt offshore wind farm was installed, less than three weeks later it fed power into the Danish grid for the first time, as the operator Dong Energy informed...read more

On September 3rd, the Innovation, the most powerful crane jack-up barge of the wind industry, was christened and commissioned in Bremerhaven. The 147-m long jack-up barge can accommodate up to 180...read more

Ten project partners from six European countries launched the Inflow ("Industrialization setup of a floating offshore wind turbine") research project in Paris. A floating vertical axis wind turbine (...read more

All 30 foundations for the German Riffgat offshore wind farm, planned by EWE Energie AG in conjunction with Enova, have been installed. EWE announced in early September that work on the foundation...read more

At its 29 August cabinet meeting, the German federal government established a compensation scheme for delayed offshore wind farm grid connections and introduced a binding offshore grid integration...read more

New concepts for the foundations of offshore wind power systems could improve the energy payback time of the turbines by 100 %. This is the result of a study by Cambridge University. Jim Platts of the...read more

The first of 160 steel foundations for the offshore wind farm Gwynt y Môr off the north Wales coast have been erected and the first export cable is currently being laid near Pensarn. Furthermore, the...read more

The British Gardline Group and GEO from Denmark are to carry out the geological investigations for the planned German offshore wind farm Wikinger. The two companies have received a contract for a...read more